Paper Lion
by George Plimpton | 
Next Man Up
by John Feinstein | 
The Essential Smart Football
by Chris B. Brown | 
A Few Seconds of Panic
by Stefan Fatsis | 
The Education of a Coach
by David Halberstam | 
The Little League That Could
by Ken Rappoport | 
Monsters
by Rich Cohen |
The Anatomy of England
by Jonathan Wilson | 
Collision Low Crossers
by Nicholas Dawidoff |
Forza Italia
by Paddy Agnew | 
Football Champ
by Tim Green |
The Art of Smart Football
by Chris B. Brown | 
Inverting The Pyramid
by Jonathan Wilson | 
Johnny U
by Tom Callahan | 
The Blind Side
by Michael Lewis |
Summer of '49
by David Halberstam |
Loose Balls
by Terry Pluto | 
Bottom of the 33rd
by Dan Barry |
Boys Among Men
by Jonathan Abrams |
Four Kings
by George Kimball |
On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti, and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff, and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. An estimated forty-five million viewers--at that time the largest crowd to have ever watched a football game--tuned in to see what would become the first sudden-death contest in NFL history. It was a battle of the league's best offense--the Colts--versus its best defense--the Giants. And it was a contest between the blue-collar Baltimore team versus the glamour boys of the Giants squad. The Best Game Ever is a brilliant portrait of how a single game changed the history of American sport. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the championship, it is destined to be a sports classic.